The Oratory’s group for young adults (aged 18-35) meets monthly, usually on Thursday evenings.
Meetings take place in St Wilfrid's Hall, the entrance to which is in the forecourt of Oratory House.
The hall opens at 7.45pm, with a talk at 8pm, and a social afterwards (with hot snacks and drinks) until 10pm.
Please note the age range for this group (18-35); if you are outside this bracket, there are many other parish groups and opportunities available, which are listed here.
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Upcoming Events
Thursday 16th May 2024: The Venerable Ignatius Spencer – English Noble & Christian Saint? (Fr Gerard Skinner, Parish Priest, Notting Hill)
Talk Summary: On 20 February 2021 Fr Ignatius Spencer was declared ‘Venerable’, putting him a crucial step closer to recognition as a Saint.
The Spencers reached the peak of their wealth in the eighteenth century; in the nineteenth century they achieved the commanding heights of political power; by the end of the twentieth century they knew the extremes of celebrity.
Ignatius Spencer (1799-1864), a relation of both Sir Winston Churchill and the Prince of Wales, renounced his wealth and position in society in order to become a priest of Jesus Christ, to serve the poor, begging his way around the British Isles and beyond, wearing the rough black habit of the Passionists, the austere religious order he had joined. He was welcomed by popes, cardinals, and aristocrats and loved by the destitute. This is the story of a remarkable figure who for some was ‘a dirty, mad mendicant’ and for others no less than a saint.
Speaker Bio: Fr Gerard Skinner studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Venerable English College in Rome. A priest of the Archdiocese of Westminster he has written, contributed to or edited many publications including Newman the Priest, Father Ignatius Spencer, Dominic Barberi and The Douai Martyrs.
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Thursday 13th June 2024: Artificial Intelligence: The Replaceable and the Irreplaceable (The Lord Skidelsky, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, University of Warwick)
Speaker Bio: Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. His three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes (1983, 1992, 2000) received numerous prizes, including the Lionel Gelber Prize for International Relations and the Council on Foreign Relations Prize for International Relations. He was made a life peer in 1991, and a Fellow of the British Academy in 1994. His latest book, The Machine Age, was published by Random House in November 2023.
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